Head Coach

Tevon Saddler
Head Coach

Tevon Saddler was named head coach for the Nicholls State University men's basketball team on April 20, 2023. He is the 13th head coach in school history.

A former Colonel and staff member, Saddler returns to Nicholls after spending a season in his home state at the University of Maryland. In his lone year with the Terps, the team won 22 games which included a victory over a Top 3 nationally-ranked team and a first-round win in the NCAA Tournament.

Before heading to Maryland, Saddler served as an assistant coach at Southland member McNeese in 2021-22. He recruited SLC Freshman of the Year Johnathan Massie and the Cowboys won their first Southland Tournament game since 2014.

Saddler was a director of basketball operations at his alma mater, Nicholls, for two years. Saddler joined the Colonels in the summer of 2019, serving as the program's Director of Operations under Austin Claunch. The Colonels went 21-10 in his first season before winning the Southland regular season title outright in 2021.

Prior to returning to Nicholls, Saddler spent 2018-19 season as a graduate assistant at the University of South Alabama under former Colonel head coach Richie Riley, where he worked with All-Sun Belt talents Trhae Mitchell and Josh Ajeyi on a daily basis.

Saddler received his Master of Science in Sports Management from South Alabama in just 13 months, graduating from the program in July 2019.

Saddler started his playing career at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, earning SoCon Freshman of the Year and clinching back-to-back All-Conference selections before transferring to play at Nicholls. In his lone season with the Colonels, he helped lead them to their first conference championship in two decades while also earning All-Southland Second Team.

Saddler received his Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Nicholls in May 2018.